Flagstaff: alternatives and connections

A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.

An ensign or flag.

Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails.

A little banner, flag, or streamer.

A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.

A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.

A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff.

The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive woo…

A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, to which the anchor is hoisted and secured.

Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.

A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.

A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer…

A flag; a banner; a standard; esp., the national flag, or a banner indicating nationality, carried by a ship or a body of soldiers; --…

A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask information; -- commonly…

The length of an extended flag from its staff; sometimes, the length from the "union" to the extreme end.

To draw up or gather into close compass; to wrap or roll, as a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or arou…

A name popularly given to any flag which hangs from a crosspiece or frame instead of from the staff or the mast itself.

An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands p…